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www.nature.com/pr BASIC SCIENCE ARTICLE OPEN Short- and long-term impact of hyperoxia on the blood and retinal cells’ transcriptome in a mouse model of oxygen- induced retinopathy Magdalena Zasada1, Anna Madetko-Talowska2, Cecilie Revhaug3,4, Anne Gro W. Rognlien3,4, Lars O. Baumbusch3,Teofila Książek2, Katarzyna Szewczyk2, Agnieszka Grabowska2, Miroslaw Bik-Multanowski2, Jacek Józef Pietrzyk1, Przemko Kwinta1 and Ola Didrik Saugstad3,4 BACKGROUND: We aimed to identify global blood and retinal gene expression patterns in murine oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR), a common model of retinopathy of prematurity, which may allow better understanding of the pathogenesis of this severe ocular prematurity complication and identification of potential blood biomarkers. METHODS: A total of 120 C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided into an OIR group, in which 7-day-old pups were maintained in 75% oxygen for 5 days, or a control group. RNA was extracted from the whole-blood mononuclear cells and retinal cells on days 12, 17, and 28. Gene expression in the RNA samples was evaluated with mouse gene expression microarrays. RESULTS: There were 38, 1370 and 111 genes, the expression of which differed between the OIR and control retinas on days 12, 17, and 28, respectively. Gene expression in the blood mononuclear cells was significantly altered only on day 17. Deptor and Nol4 genes showed reduced expression both in the blood and retinal cells on day 17. 1234567890();,: CONCLUSION: There are sustained marked changes in the global pattern of gene expression in the OIR mice retinas. An altered expression of Deptor and Nol4 genes in the blood mononuclear cells requires further investigation as they may indicate retinal neovascularization. Pediatric Research (2020) 87:485–493; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-019-0598-y INTRODUCTION oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR).5 In mice, the retinas are mostly Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a proliferative retinal vascular avascular after birth, and retinal vascularization occurs in the early disorder affecting premature infants, is currently a major cause of neonatal period, resembling situation observed in the prematurely potentially preventable blindness in children.1 It is estimated that born infants. 5-day long continuous exposure to high oxygen ROP affects 33.2% of neonates with birth weight < 1500 g.2 ROP levels imitates the biphasic retinal vascular response observed in develops in two phases; phase 1 is initiated by hyperoxia and the young infants with ROP.6 Up till now, exploration of the retinal exacerbated by lack of the essential factors provided in utero, gene expression pattern in the murine OIR model was assessed followed by a destruction of existing vessels and arrest of normal partially. Sato et al.7 evaluated only a selected set of genes related vessel development. Phase 2 is driven by increased metabolic to angiogenesis and inflammation. Subsequent studies investi- activity of the hypoxic retina, which leads to both revascularization gated expression of the entire genome, but at the selected time and pathological neovascularization.3 An excessive abnormal points—Ishikawa et al.8 and Yang et al.9 determined a profile of compensatory vessel growth may result in fibrous scar develop- gene expression in murine retinas soon after end of hyperoxia, ment, and ultimately leads to retinal detachment.4 We believe that whereas Recchia et al.10 additionally verified gene expression in better understanding of the pathomechanisms behind ROP rodent retinas during neovascularization phase. The goal of this coupled with an early and effective method of the risk study was to identify potential ROP blood biomarkers and provide stratification of ROP development would allow to take true a more molecular-based understanding of ROP by comparing the preventive actions and/or targeted treatment. Genome-wide gene expression profile at three time points (vaso-obliteration microarray analysis provides a simultaneous examination of the (P12), maximal neovascularization (P17) and during normalization expression of thousands of genes in a single experiment to create of the retinal damage (P28)) in the blood mononuclear cells and a comprehensive picture of dysregulated genes and pathways. A retinas obtained from the mice with and without OIR. We possibility to use the animal model that mimics key features of the hypothesized that supplemental oxygen as compared with air disease provides invaluable tool for studying ROP underlying induced gene expression changes in the blood and retinal cells, mechanisms not only in the blood, but also in the target tissue which varied depending on the length of time following exposure such as retina. The most widely used model is a murine model of to hyperoxia. 1Department of Paediatrics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland; 2Department of Medical Genetics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland; 3Department of Paediatric Research, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway and 4University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Correspondence: Przemko Kwinta ([email protected]) These authors contributed equally: M. Zasada, A. Madetko-Talowska Received: 3 June 2019 Revised: 4 September 2019 Accepted: 6 September 2019 Published online: 2 October 2019 © The Author(s) 2019 Short- and long-term impact of hyperoxia on the blood and retinal cells’... M Zasada et al. 486 METHODS suspended by manual pipetting, then the samples were placed Murine model of OIR immediately at −80 °C. Total RNA was isolated with the use of The Norwegian Animal Research Authority approved all experi- Mouse RiboPure™-Blood RNA Isolation Kit (Invitrogen; Thermo ment protocols. The animals were cared for and handled in Fisher Scientific) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. RNA accordance with the Norwegian Legislation and Directive. OIR was concentration was measured with the use of NanoDrop Spectro- induced in C57BL/6 mice (received from: Jackson Laboratories, Bar photometer (NanoDrop ND-1000; Thermoscientific, Waltham), and Harbor, ME) according to the protocol described by Smith et al.6 RNA quality was determined by TapeStation 4200 (Agilent, Santa Briefly, mice were housed and bred at 24 °C at a 12:12 light/dark Clara). cycle with access to a standard rodent pellets and water ad libitum. On the postnatal day 7 (P7), all pups within each litter Obtaining retinas and total RNA isolation were earmarked with use of surgical micro-scissors. When a pup Whole retinas free of additional tissues were isolated immedi- was picked up from the cage, it received a number drawn by an ately under a dissecting microscope, and put into vials with assistant from blinded tickets containing numbers from 1 to 8. The RNAlater® Stabilization Solution (Thermo Fisher Scientific), kept procedure was repeated until every pup had its own number for 24 h in + 4°Candstoredina−80 °C freezer until further use. within the litter. The smallest pups (according to their body weight To isolate sufficient total RNA for microarray analysis, two retinas on P7) out of litters of >8, or any abnormal pups (with visible fromthesamemousewerepooled.Retinatissueswerethen morphologic abnormalities) were excluded from the experiment. disrupted with the use of TissueRuptor handheld rotor-stator Each litter with a nursing mother was then randomized either to homogenizer (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) and total RNA from the hyperoxia (75% oxygen) or normoxia (21% oxygen) conditions retina cells was processed by RNeasy Micro Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, (also by drawing a ticket either with a symbol N for normoxia or H Germany) as described by the manufacturer. RNA concentration for hyperoxia), then transferred in their cage into A-Chambers was measured with the use of NanoDrop Spectrophotometer (BioSpherix Ltd, Parish, NY), where they were kept until day 12 (NanoDrop ND-1000; Thermoscientific, Waltham), and RNA (P12). Seventy-five percent oxygen concentration was achieved quality was determined by TapeStation 4200 (Agilent, Santa with a conventional oxygen mixer (oxygen (AGA AS, Oslo, Norway) Clara). plus room air). Each chamber was continuously monitored for oxygen concentration (O2-monitor, ProOX110 BioSpherix Ltd, Validation of the model Parish, NY), temperature and humidity (Thermometer/Hygrometer Eyes from randomly selected 36 pups both from normoxia and Clas Ohlson, Insjon, Sweden), and CO2 level (ProCO2 P120, hyperoxia groups, 1/3 from each harvesting time point, were used BioSpherix Ltd, Parish, NY). An open water source kept air for the verification of the model, according to the methods humidity at 40–50%. Every day there was a 10–20 min break in described in details elsewhere.3 Briefly, the eye was enucleated oxygen supply for airing the chamber and checking the mice. and fixed with 4% Paraformaldehyde Solution (Boster Biological Nursing dams stayed with their own litters throughout the entire Technology, Pleasanton CA). Then under the dissecting micro- experiment. The cages containing pups with their mothers were scope the retina was isolated, incubated in 0.5% Triton X-100 removed from the hyperoxia/normoxia chambers on day P12. (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) and stained in the lectin solution with Alexa Before removing cages with mice from A-Chambers, one more Fluor 594–I21413, Molecular Probes. Then under a dissecting randomization was performed; namely tickets with symbols, microscope retinas were mounted on a microscope slide and indicating the predicted harvesting day and type of analyses cover slipped with SlowFade medium (Thermo Fisher
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